Re:Why Monero
by fragmede on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @05:54AM
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There must be some subtlety I'm missing because you say it's hard to have a light client because there's no way to have a subset of transactions/checkpoint, but then say its PoW is so expensive that starting from a checkpoint is the default.
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Keeping data from all tx indexed entails a large memory footprint during all client use. The checkpoint issue affects only the initial sync. Making that trustless by turning off the checkpointing makes turns a moderately slow sync into an extremely slow sync.